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This is actually something of an oversimplification, if Aberrant: The Directive can be believed. It must have been written by an American, or someone else who believes that nothing important has really happened until Americans are involved, or that nothing in the outside world truly exists until Americans hear about it.
In fact, Andrei Srebrianski, first president of the RusCon and last president of the Commonwealth of Independent States, and Petr Ilyanovich, last head of the Commonwealth's FSB (Federal Security Bureau, more or less), began laying the groundwork for the Directive about five minutes after the RusCon's official formation. Ilyanovich was terrified by novas in general, and particularly by two factors:
a) Treasury Minister Vladimir Sierka's singlehanded rescue of the Russian economy;
b) Project Utopia's apparent quest for a monopoly on novas. (Even if their motives were as noble as they claimed, he didn't trust them not to be acton'd by that much power.)
Srebrianski didn't share Ilyanovich's fears, but he had to admit he could no longer ostrich in the sand and pretend novas would go away on their own. He authorized Ilyanovich to reactivate the task force that had uncovered a conspiracy to oust Yeltsin. This cadre became the core of the Directive.
The UK joined next. After relinquishing Hong Kong and reuniting Ireland (under nominal home rule), Britain had begun withdrawing into a new Splendid Isolation. Ilyanovich pointed out to Calvin Lathrop, head of the Intelligence and Security Committee, that in a world with novas in, this couldn't last.
Ilyanovich then introduced Lathrop to Srebrianski, in discussions that left each man with the impression the other had already agreed to recruitment of more nations. The next stop was Japan, not nearly as wary of novas as the other two countries. In fact, novas had been at the heart of the Saisho economic renaissance that pulled Japan back up after the Moscow Crash.
Ilyanovich and Lathrop approached Mitsu Nakamura, chairperson of the Finance Committee of the Diet (Japan's parliament). She also served on the Justice and Foreign Affairs Committees, and (most importantly) was the cousin of Yoshira Nakamura, head of the Kuro-Tek corporation. To her, they pitched the Directive as designed to protect its member nations' investment in novas.
"Contrary to the expectation of the nascent Directive's leading representatives, the United States was perhaps the easiest 'sell' of the Directive's formation." The expectation arose because Americans initially welcomed Project Utopia, most of them seeing it as an American organization inheriting America's role as the world's policeman. Utopia did its best to encourage that view.
But not everyone was so sanguine. Eliot Stinson, President Schroer's assistant secretary of defense, recognized from the start that Utopia's interests were Utopia's own, not necessarily America's. He believed that there were right ways and wrong ways to promote nova-baseline relations, and that Utopia was not one of the right ways. The Sternych Missive addressed these matters in a way tailored to Stinson's views, but they hardly needed to bother. Wary of any international move that threatened to (in his view) hurt America, Stinson readily agreed to American involvement in the Directive. After persuading Congress and the President to his views, he named CIA deputy director Arnold Harris as the day-to-day Director on behalf of America.
2001
[Aberrant] Representatives from the United States, the Russian Confederation, the United Kingdom and Japan meet in Moscow. They agree to form and sponsor a multinational intelligence agency, which they term "the Directive." The Directive's primary mission is to monitor the activities of Project Utopia and the world's growing population of novas.
This is actually something of an oversimplification, if Aberrant: The Directive can be believed. It must have been written by an American, or someone else who believes that nothing important has really happened until Americans are involved, or that nothing in the outside world truly exists until Americans hear about it.
In fact, Andrei Srebrianski, first president of the RusCon and last president of the Commonwealth of Independent States, and Petr Ilyanovich, last head of the Commonwealth's FSB (Federal Security Bureau, more or less), began laying the groundwork for the Directive about five minutes after the RusCon's official formation. Ilyanovich was terrified by novas in general, and particularly by two factors:
a) Treasury Minister Vladimir Sierka's singlehanded rescue of the Russian economy;
b) Project Utopia's apparent quest for a monopoly on novas. (Even if their motives were as noble as they claimed, he didn't trust them not to be acton'd by that much power.)
Srebrianski didn't share Ilyanovich's fears, but he had to admit he could no longer ostrich in the sand and pretend novas would go away on their own. He authorized Ilyanovich to reactivate the task force that had uncovered a conspiracy to oust Yeltsin. This cadre became the core of the Directive.
The UK joined next. After relinquishing Hong Kong and reuniting Ireland (under nominal home rule), Britain had begun withdrawing into a new Splendid Isolation. Ilyanovich pointed out to Calvin Lathrop, head of the Intelligence and Security Committee, that in a world with novas in, this couldn't last.
Ilyanovich then introduced Lathrop to Srebrianski, in discussions that left each man with the impression the other had already agreed to recruitment of more nations. The next stop was Japan, not nearly as wary of novas as the other two countries. In fact, novas had been at the heart of the Saisho economic renaissance that pulled Japan back up after the Moscow Crash.
Ilyanovich and Lathrop approached Mitsu Nakamura, chairperson of the Finance Committee of the Diet (Japan's parliament). She also served on the Justice and Foreign Affairs Committees, and (most importantly) was the cousin of Yoshira Nakamura, head of the Kuro-Tek corporation. To her, they pitched the Directive as designed to protect its member nations' investment in novas.
"Contrary to the expectation of the nascent Directive's leading representatives, the United States was perhaps the easiest 'sell' of the Directive's formation." The expectation arose because Americans initially welcomed Project Utopia, most of them seeing it as an American organization inheriting America's role as the world's policeman. Utopia did its best to encourage that view.
But not everyone was so sanguine. Eliot Stinson, President Schroer's assistant secretary of defense, recognized from the start that Utopia's interests were Utopia's own, not necessarily America's. He believed that there were right ways and wrong ways to promote nova-baseline relations, and that Utopia was not one of the right ways. The Sternych Missive addressed these matters in a way tailored to Stinson's views, but they hardly needed to bother. Wary of any international move that threatened to (in his view) hurt America, Stinson readily agreed to American involvement in the Directive. After persuading Congress and the President to his views, he named CIA deputy director Arnold Harris as the day-to-day Director on behalf of America.
